Bohr sets generated by polynomials and Coppersmith's method in many variables

Abstract

We obtain bounds on the average size of Bohr sets with coefficients parametrised by polynomials over finite fields and obtain a series of general results and also some sharper results for specific sets which are important for applications to computer science. In particular, we use our estimates to show that a heuristic assumption used in the many variable version of Coppersmith's method holds with high probability. We demonstrate the use of our results on the approximate greatest common divisor problem and obtain a fully rigorous version of the heuristic algorithm of H. Cohn and N. Heninger (2013).